... The controller manages the storage and retrieval of data to and from the mechanism and performs mappings between incoming logical addresses and the physical disk sectors that store the information ... Bruce Worthington and Greg Ganger at the University of Michigan took this approach and managed to ﬁne-tune the controller-overhead and bus-transfer components of a model similar to ours They achieved ... important when a workload has large data transfers 15 We plan to use our reﬁned disk drive simulation model to explore a variety of different I/O designs and policy choices at host and disk drive...

... how the major wireless technologies are used today • Describe various applications of wireless communications technology • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of wireless communications ... data without the use of wires • Wireless data communications technologies include: – – – – Bluetooth Wireless LAN and WAN Satellite Cellular A Wireless World • Wireless devices – Distance: 300 ... having to go to a specific computer lab or the library – To get on the school’s computer network • Wireless technology translates into a cost savings for colleges as well 32 Home Entertainment • Wireless...

... hda1, hda2, and hda3 are all physical volumes We'll initialize hda3 as a physical volume: root@lappy:~# pvcreate /dev/hda3 If you wanted to combine several disks, or partitions you could the same ... that we have a volume group (called skx-vol) we can actually start using it Working with logical volumes What we really want to is create logical volumes which we can mount and actually use In ... have a lot of space handy for allocating to LVM then it might make sense to reinstall your system The Debian installer has excellent support for creating LVM setups We've not really covered advanced...

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... beginning of fluid mechanics Fig 1.3 Ancient Greek ship depicted on old vase inclination or supply pressure had to be adjusted to overcome friction with the wall of the conduit This gave rise to much ... was the first to find the least resistive ‘streamline’ shape 4 History of fluid mechanics Leonardo da Vinci (145 2-1 519 ) An all-round genius born in Italy His unceasing zeal for the truth and ... origin of the ship is not clear, but it is easy to imagine the course of progress from log to raft, from manual propulsion to sails, and from river to ocean navigation The Phoenicians and Egyptians...

... Kinematic viscosity B Y units 0 1 0 0 m kg -3 -1 1 1 -1 -1 -2 -2 -2 -2 -1 -1 S mls m/s2 kg I m3 N = kg m/s2 Pa = N/m2 J Pa s m2/s Characteristics of a fluid 2.2.2 Dimension All physical quantities ... proportional to the velocity gradient duldy Such fluids are called Newtonian fluids On the other hand, liquid which is not subject to Newton's law of viscosity, such as a liquid pulp, a high-molecular-weight ... only too well known There are so many scientific terms named after Newton (Newton's rings and Newton's law of motion/ viscosity/resistance) that he can be regarded as the greatest contributor to...